Word: mille
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...menace," shouted Detroit's spellbinding radio priest, Father Charles Edward Coughlin, testifying before Judge Harry B. Keidan, the one-man grand jury. "These white-carnation bankers and stockmarket gamblers were not to blame. They had been brought up in the school of Ricardo*; and John Stuart Mill and more latterly, Mr. Herbert Hoover." Father Coughlin was putting on a one-man show for the one-man jury. Much to the delight of a hot pack of Detroiters who squeezed into the courtroom, he thumped, ranted and deplored for two full days. He discoursed at length on the subject...
...North Carolina one textile mill closed, five others announced they would close this week. Reason given: With the 4.2? processing taxes and higher NRA wages they cannot continue manufacturing unless sales keep up-which they have not. Said the American Wool & Cotton Reporter last week: "Business is better. The mills are running well. But there hasn't been anything sold now for three weeks. The mills bought raw material to get in ahead of inflation, the garment manufacturers bought piece goods for the same reason, but neither are mills buying raw material now nor garment manufacturers piece goods...
...bleak, grey-mustached, sensitive man who as a youth polished cuspidors and the brass rail of Luke O'Connor's bygone saloon in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. Later in Yonkers, N. Y. sensitive John Masefield learned to abhor the Machine Age by working in a rug mill. Last week as the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom he told Welshmen that "the world subconsciously longs for poetry but it now invents substitutes, such as speed, to obtain the excitement which poetry would give...
...second title that ferocious, thick-shouldered Lou Brouillard has held in the two and a half years that he has been a professional fisticuffer. Born in Saint Eugene. Quebec, he was moved to Danielson, Conn., when he was nine. Three years ago. a peaceable weaver in a Connecticut cotton mill, he went to watch an amateur boxing tournament, substituted in a lightweight bout and won it. After six months as an amateur, he turned professional. When an opponent broke two ribs on his right side, he tried boxing lefthanded. Says he: "When the ribs are cured...
...Carnegie $492,000,000 when buying the company to found U. S. Steel. Mellon and Frick lost $1,170,000, the price they had paid Carnegie for the option. Angered, they started Union Steel Co. which promptly began to expand, bought or built blast furnaces, bar, wire, tube, plate mills; went to Mesabi for ore. Mellon provided customers for Union Steel: he started New York Shipbuilding Co. (see p. 41) at Camden and Standard Steel Car. He backed two young men and took a 60% interest in McClintic-Marshall Construction Co. Meantime U. S. Steel had been formed. When Union...